New Designs for School

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools: Alice M. Baxter College-Ready High School

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New Designs for School

New Designs for School

We’ve all had the experience of truly purposeful, authentic learning and know how valuable it is. Educators are taking the best of what we know about learning, student support, effective instruction, and interpersonal skill-building to completely reimagine schools so that students experience that kind of purposeful learning all day, every day.

The largest charter organization in Los Angeles serving more than 11,000 low-income students aims to prove it is possible to educate students at high levels across an entire system of schools. Alliance College-Ready Public Schools developed the PACE blended learning model, launched at the new Baxter High School, to more effectively prepare its students to persist in college. PACE addresses three challenges to college completion for its alumni: insufficient academic rigor in high school, lack of self-direction and time management skills, and financial pressures.